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11-letter words containing t, m, j

  • plumb joint — (in sheet metal work) a soldered lap joint.
  • prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
  • project mac — (project)   A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
  • projectment — a design or projection
  • quart major — Piquet. a sequence of four cards of the same suit, as an ace, king, queen, and jack (quart major) or king, queen, jack, and ten (quart minor)
  • quint major — an organ stop sounding a fifth higher than the corresponding digitals.
  • rejoicement — rejoicing; delight; exultation; gladness; joy
  • sojournment — the state of sojourning
  • thingamajig — a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.
  • traffic jam — jam1 (def 16).
  • triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
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